Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author — John Shaqi
Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the AuthorRush, Benjamin
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Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author
Rush, Benjamin
Medicine; Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
11. A cold, cool, dry, smooth, or shining skin.
12. The appearance of a yellow colour in the face on the first or second
day of the fever.
13. The absence of pain, or a sudden cessation of it, with the common
symptoms of great danger.
14. A disposition to faint upon a little motion, and fainting after
losing but a few ounces of blood.
15. A watery, glassy, or brilliant eye. A red eye on the fourth or fifth
day of the disease. It is more alarming if it become so after having been
previously yellow.
16. Imperfect vision, and blindness in the close of the disease.
17. Deafness.
18. A preternatural appetite, more especially in the last stage of the
fever.
19. A slow, intermitting, and shattered pulse.
20. Great restlessness, delirium, and long continued coma.
21. A discharge of coffee-coloured or black matter from the stomach,
after the fourth day of the fever.
22. A smooth red tongue, covered with a lead-coloured crust, while its
edges are of a bright red.
23. A dull vacant face, expressive of distress.
24. Great insensibility to common occurrences, and an indifference about
the issue of the disease.
25. Uncommon serenity of mind, accompanied with an unusually placid
countenance.
I shall conclude this head by the following remarks:
1. The violence, danger, and probable issue of this fever, seem to be in
proportion to the duration and force of the predisposing and exciting
causes. However steady the former are in bringing on debility, and the
latter in acting as irritants upon accumulated excitability, yet a
knowledge of their duration and force is always useful, not only in
forming an opinion of the probable issue of the fever, but in regulating
the force of remedies.
2. The signs of danger vary in different years, from the influence of the
weather upon the disease.
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